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  title info:
    title: Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process
    sub title: Economic, Political, Social and Technological Applications with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks
  name:
    name part: Saaty, Thomas L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Vargas, Luis G.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 278 p. 148 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The Analytic Network Process (ANP) developed by Thomas Saaty in his work on multicriteria decision making applies network structures with dependence and feedback to complex decision making. This book is a selection of applications of ANP to economic, social and political decisions, and also to technological design. The chapters comprise contributions of scholars, consultants and people concerned about the outcome of certain important decisions who applied the Analytic Network Process to determine the best outcome for each decision from among several potential outcomes. The ANP is a methodological tool that is helpful to organize knowledge and thinking, elicit judgments registered in both in memory and in feelings, quantify the judgments and derive priorities from them, and finally synthesize these diverse priorities into a single mathematically and logically justifiable overall outcome. In the process of deriving this outcome, the ANP also allows for the representation and synthesis of diverse opinions in the midst of discussion and debate. The ANP offers economists a considerably different approach for dealing with economic problems than the usual quantitative models used. The ANP approach is based on absolute scales used to represent pairwise comparison judgments in the context of dominance with respect to a property shared by the homogeneous elements being compared. How much or how many times more does A dominate B with respect to property P? Actually people are able to answer this question by using words to indicate intensity of dominance that all of us are equipped biologically to do all the time (equal, moderate, strong, very strong, and extreme) whose conversion to numbers, validation and extension to inhomogeneous elements form the foundation of the AHP/ANP. Numerous applications of the ANP have been made to economic problems, among which prediction of the turn-around dates for the US economy in the early 1990’s and again in 2001 whose accuracy and validity …
  table of contents: The Analytic Network Process -- Forecasting the Resurgence of the U.S. Economy in 2001: An Expert Judgment Approach -- An Analytic Network Process Model for Financial-Crisis Forecasting -- Outsourcing a Firm’s Application Development Group -- ANWR - Artic National Wildlife Refuge: an ANP Validation Example -- The Ford Explorer Case -- Pennsylvania High-Speed Maglev Project -- U.S. Energy Security -- Stabilizing Social Security for the Long-Term -- The Most Hopeful Outcome in the Middle East Conflict: The Analytic Network Process Approach -- The Conflict Between China and Taiwan -- U. S. Response to North Korean Nuclear Threat -- Criteria for Evaluating Group Decision-Making Methods.
  note: by Thomas L. Saaty, Luis G. Vargas.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Industrial management
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Econometrics
  subject:
    topic: Psychometrics
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  subject:
    topic: Innovation/Technology Management
  subject:
    topic: Econometrics
  subject:
    topic: Psychometrics
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  classification: HD30.23
  classification: 658.40301
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 95
  identifier: 9780387339870
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-33987-6
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